New York A 3883: Relates to exempting farm laborer internships earning college credit from the definition of employee and employment

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A03883 Summary:

BILL NOA03883 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORWilliams

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COSPNSRManktelow, McDonough

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§2 & 201, Work Comp L

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Exempts service as a farm laborer where such service is an internship granting college course credit from the definition of employee and employment for the purposes of certain workers' compensation benefits.

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BILL NOA03883 

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01/30/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3883

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law, in relation to exempting
 farm laborer internships earning college credit from the definition of
 employee and employment

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 4 of section 2 of the
 2 workers' compensation law, as amended by chapter 503 of the laws of
 3 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 4 "Employee" means a person engaged in one of the occupations enumerated
 5 in section three of this article or who is in the service of an employer
 6 whose principal business is that of carrying on or conducting a hazard-
 7 ous employment upon the premises or at the plant, or in the course of
 8 [his or her] such employee's employment away from the plant of [his or
 9 her] such employee's employer; "employee" shall also mean for the
 10 purposes of this chapter any individual performing services in
 11 construction for a contractor who does not overcome the presumption of
 12 employment as provided under section eight hundred sixty-one-c of the
 13 labor law; "employee" shall also mean for the purposes of this chapter
 14 any individual performing services in the commercial goods transporta-
 15 tion industry for a commercial goods transportation contractor who does
 16 not overcome the presumption of employment as provided under section
 17 eight hundred sixty-two-b of the labor law; "employee" shall also mean
 18 for the purposes of this chapter civil defense volunteers who are
 19 personnel of volunteer agencies sponsored or authorized by a local
 20 office under regulations of the civil defense commission, to the extent
 21 of the provisions of groups seventeen and nineteen; "employee" shall at
 22 the election of a municipal corporation made pursuant to local law duly
 23 enacted also mean a member of an auxiliary police organization author-
 24 ized by local law; and for the purposes of this chapter only a newspaper

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06491-01-5

 A. 3883 2

 1 carrier under the age of eighteen years as defined in section thirty-two
 2 hundred twenty-eight of the education law, but shall not include deliv-
 3 ery of newspapers or shopping news to the consumer (including any
 4 services directly related to such trade or business) by a person who is
 5 not performing commercial goods transportation services for a commercial
 6 goods transportation contractor within the meaning of article twenty-
 7 five-C of the labor law, and shall not include domestic servants except
 8 as provided in section three of this chapter, and except where the
 9 employer has elected to bring such employees under the law by securing
 10 compensation in accordance with the terms of section fifty of this chap-
 11 ter. The term "employee" shall not include persons who are members of a
 12 supervised amateur athletic activity operated on a non-profit basis,
 13 provided that said members are not also otherwise engaged or employed by
 14 any person, firm or corporation participating in said athletic activity,
 15 nor shall it include the spouse or minor child of an employer who is a
 16 farmer unless the services of such spouse or minor child shall be
 17 engaged by said employer under an express contract of hire nor shall it
 18 includ